Mr. COLDWELL:

May I suggest to the minister that many of us are much disturbed about this matter. Could not a small committee of the house be set up on the understanding that any reading of the evidence would be regarded by them as confidential, so far as the safety of the country is concerned?

Mr. ST. LAURENT: I have no objection to the evidence given by Doctor Shugar being made available to a small committee, provided of course the members of that committee would say that they would not use the information they would gain from a perusal of the evidence, or that they would not themselves publish the information which they might have gained through such perusal. I understand that it will be rather difficult to draw a line. If some hon. members differed from us on the question whether the making of certain things known would endanger the safety of the state, it would be difficult to discuss such disagreement without referring to what is in the evidence. However, if the leaders wish to have a _small committee join with me to go over it, I should have no objection.

Mr. DIEFENBAKER:

If I might make reference to what has been said by the hon. member for Rosetown-Biggar (Mr. Coldwell), I would not agree to a committee laying secrecy on top of secrecy.

Mr. COLDWELL:

What about a royal

commission?

Motion dropped.

Mr. DUBOIS:

For a copy of all letters, telegrams and other documents in the possession of the department relative to the resignation of Louis J. Trottier, chief commissioner of the unemployment insurance commission.

Mr. MITCHELL:

I have already tabled the documents referred to in this motion, and I suggest that it be dropped.

Motion dropped.

Mr. STANLEY KNOWLES (Winnipeg North Centre):

I should like to ask a question of the Minister of Labour, of which I was unable to give him notice, but which I am sure he will be in a position to answer. Has he taken steps to implement the report of the industrial disputes inquiry commission which looked into the dispute between the Vancouver Province and the international typographical union?

Mr. MITCHELL:

I believe I received the report on Friday. Steps have been taken by myself to endeavour to bring the parties together.

Mr. KNOWLES:

The minister's statement refers to the principal parties suggested in the report.

Mr. MITCHELL:

Yes.

Mr. G. K. FRASER (Peterborough West):

Mr. Speaker, I should like to ask a question of the Minister of Justice respecting a matter discussed last Thursday. Will the Dutch and Belgian wives and fiancees of service and exservice men be given priority over the 4,000 Polish army men to be admitted to Canada?

Right Hon. L. S. St. LAURENT (Acting Prime Minister): That is a question I cannot answer. The arrangements to bring to Canada

4,000 Polish ex-service men are being made by the United Kingdom government and the Canadian government, in cooperation. Some of the men are to be brought directly from Italy to a Canadian port. I cannot say in what way that might clash with the movement of wives or dependents of our own army personnel.

Mr. FRASER:

I should like to ask the Minister of Mines and Resources if the transportation to Canada from Holland and Belgium of the wives and fiancees of exservice men has been held up because the immigration branch has not had officers over there. I understand officers are being sent from Canada to those countries. Will these wives and fiancees now be given priority?

Hon. J. A. GLEN (Minister of Mines and Resources):

I shall take note of the hon.

member's question and answer it to-morrow.

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